# Accents you find sexy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792 "2004-09-02T16:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/1 "2004-09-02T16:45:17Z")
So as not to hijack [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=522874) thread, which accents make you go weak at the knees? Make you want to spontaneously orgasm? Which accents do you find just so incredibly sexy? For me, its mainly the “Celtic” accents - Scottish and Irish. The Irish accent just has a certain something about it, but the Scottish accent just makes me go totally weak at the knees, its just so damned sexy darnit! 😉 So, come on, spill, what are the most sexiest accents (IYHO) on the face of this planet? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/2 "2004-09-02T16:47:31Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > So as not to hijack [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=522874) thread, which accents make you go weak at the knees? Make you want to spontaneously orgasm? Which accents do you find just so incredibly sexy? :smack: Wrong thread! Meant [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=274162) one! ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/3 "2004-09-02T16:50:21Z")
I’m quite fond of English and Australian accents. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/4 "2004-09-02T17:02:46Z")
Scottish does it for me. I could listen to Billy Boyd speak for hours. French is also a big turn-on. 'Specially if the guy has a deep soft voice. ::shiver:: ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/5 "2004-09-02T17:07:26Z")
_Finlandssvenska_ , the accent of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. Rrrrrrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/6 "2004-09-02T17:08:19Z")
I love to listen to British women speak. It’s my ambition to visit there just so I can be surrounded by them. Damn, it’s sexy. Especially if they have red hair. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/7 "2004-09-02T17:09:55Z")
Scottish. Especially if he’s big and strong, a bit battle-scarred, and wearing a kilt. Hummina hummina hummina. (Jamie Fraser in _Outlander_. Ooooh baby.) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/8 "2004-09-02T17:16:57Z")
Ok, so what _is_ it about the Scottish accent then? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/9 "2004-09-02T17:26:00Z")
Scottish accents and _most_ Irish accents don’t do it for me at all anymore. Overfamiliarity, I guess. Donegal and Derry are the exception to the latter. These days I’m more partial to Eastern European accents 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/10 "2004-09-02T18:18:48Z")
Irish and Scottish accents don’t do a thing for me. British accents are nice although I prefer them in men more than I do women. Same for Spanish. Based on the one Filipina I’ve known, I _ **love** _ Malay accents. Of course, it probably help that I really liked her too, so maybe I’m biased. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/11 "2004-09-02T18:27:59Z")
Australian. Nicole Kidman was soooooooo hot in _Days of Thunder_. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/12 "2004-09-02T18:32:23Z")
Irish does it for me. Most any other accent either has no effect, or actively repels me. But an Irish accent… yum! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/13 "2004-09-02T18:36:35Z")
Scottish, Irish, English and French, oh my! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/14 "2004-09-02T18:37:11Z")
Chalk up a third Australian. Especially the woman who does the radio ads for Black & White Cabs. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/15 "2004-09-02T18:39:59Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > So as not to hijack [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=522874) thread, which accents make you go weak at the knees? Make you want to spontaneously orgasm? Which accents do you find just so incredibly sexy? > > For me, its mainly the “Celtic” accents - Scottish and Irish. The Irish accent just has a certain something about it, but the Scottish accent just makes me go totally weak at the knees, its just so damned sexy darnit! 😉 > > So, come on, spill, what are the most sexiest accents (IYHO) on the face of this planet? Agreed. Nothing makes me go weak in the knees quit like a woman with an educated Irish accent. _sighs_ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/16 "2004-09-02T18:49:41Z")
Irish. It does for a woman what might otherwise take 3 or 4 beers. The speech of an Irish woman can reduce her weight by up to 30 pounds, deepen the green of her eyes by 4 shades (even if they weren’t green to begin with!) and more than compensate for blotchy skin, baldness and cleft palate–all of them at once if she’s bringing me 3 or 4 pints of Guinness. I don 't believe I’ve ever heard a bona fide Scotswoman speak. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/17 "2004-09-02T18:58:56Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Irish and Scottish accents don’t do a thing for me. British accents are nice Once again… Scottish accents _are_ British accents. ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/18 "2004-09-02T19:00:10Z")
A mix of American and Arab accents in women does it for me. One moment they speak (IMO) flawless NY or any accent, and then, suddenly they just in the typical Arba pronunciation or the accent. Just he right touch to the flow. To put it in colloquial Hindi, '_Zor ka jhatka, dheera se_ ’ The same is pathetic in men. ---
**Author:** ![rowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/19 "2004-09-02T19:13:05Z")
My fiancee’s sexy Armenian accent does it for me, though I also love a good Irish one… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792/20 "2004-09-02T19:16:11Z")
German or Eastern European accents. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-find-sexy/262792.md?page=2)